For anyone who follows the news, the story will sound eerily familiar: migrant workers rounded up by immigration officials, put on a plane and transported to a deportation center and, ultimately, ...

Bad times make for good music. Woody Guthrie’s American Song, now playing at Theatre Too in The Quadrangle, celebrates the Okie balladeer who blended stories of the Great Depression with simple tunes ...

“I felt like there was something that needed to be said in this moment,” says Anna Canoni. The person to say it, however, turned out to be her grandfather, Woody Guthrie, who died in 1967. The new ...

Woody Guthrie was born into the Dust Bowl's devastation and displacement. His signature song, taught in classrooms and sung at protests, offers an... How 'This Land Is Your Land' Roamed And Rambled ...

If U2 is accepting an award named for folk singer Woody Guthrie, it’s a safe bet that Bono is going to use the opportunity to say a little something about music, protest, and the changing political ...

Refugees wandering and unwelcome, environmental disasters wrecking the land, poverty pushing people to the margins — Woody Guthrie was responding to the hardships of the Great Depression, but he may ...

In an early scene of A Complete Unknown, Chalamet performs the entirety of “Song ti Woody” to Scoot McNairy, who plays Woody Guthrie. Guthrie was Dylan’s hero, and he sought him out when he moved to ...

As candidates for public office unleash round after round of vitriol in political commercials, Charlie Maguire has some advice for them. Hire a folk singer. “People will listen to an artist say ...

He traveled a hard dusty road, singing songs of protest against the injustice he saw around him. Overcoming early adversity, Woody Guthrie inspired future generations of folk musicians with his ...

Before Bob Dylan was Bob Dylan, he was a disciple of Woody Guthrie. But Guthrie and his contemporaries were more than folk singers — they were blacklisted radicals, shaping American music while ...